Golden Harvest, Company Hong Kong, Australia, 1997.
Jackie (Jackie Chan) is a popular TV-chef. Ruthless drug lord Giancarlo (Richard Norton) wages a gang war with the Demons Gang. Reporter Diana (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick) and her crew were just filming a messy drug deal when the bad guys noticed them. Only Diana gets away with the video tape. Luckily she meets Jackie, who knows kung-fu. While escaping the criminals there is a mix up and Diana gets a tape demonstrating Jackie's cooking skills.
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| Diana |
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| Garbage day! |
Jackie wanted to be a cop but his father thought that it was too dangerous. Family friend Baggio (Barry Otto) made sure that Jackie pursued safe cook's career. It will not stay safe as Giancarlo's men crash the cooking event searching for the video tape and also Demons join the fun with gang bosses Sandy (Rachel Blakely) and Victor (David William No). Jackie and his Chinese girlfriend Miki (Miki Lee) escape.
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| Miki |
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| Victor and Sandy |
To add more women to the story, there is Jackie's assistant Lakisha (Karen McLymont). There is a potential for harem comedy, as Miki is jealous and also Diana drops in to find the video. But that's enough drama and romantic comedy as the action soon continues. Even mild mannered Jackie gets mad when the baddies blow up his home and kidnap Miki.
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| Giancarlo |
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| Miki, Diana and Lakisha |
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| Knock knock! |
Although Jackie's golden era was in the 1980s Jackie Chan made also numerous entertaining films in the 1990s. This is the film that contains:
-horse carriage chase
-Jackie fights in a van
-Jackie plays hide-and-seek with bad guys in a corridor of doors.
-Cool fight on a construction site with bad guy getting stuck in a concrete mixer
-Jackie demolishes bad guy's house with haul truck.
Distributor New Line Cinema cut the movie to 84 minutes (originally 97 minutes). Although the story is paper thin and all the plot threads remain loose in the end (for example Diana just gets knocked unconscious and disappears from the story before the end, maybe it is just New Line Cinema's editing or then Sammo just didn't care), it has still good action, turbo-paced and comical in the way of best Jackie Chan films. It has fun slapstick comedy and crazy stunts. Director Sammo Hung has a small role as a hapless cyclist. The henchmen of Giancarlo are nameless, there is a blonde thug who seems to be right hand man but he is undistinguished in the credits listed probably under "Giancarlo's men." Also familiar Western face from Jackie's 1990s era films, stunt actor and stunt choreographer Bradley James Allan is among the baddies.
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| Unknown blonde thug |
Rating: 
Good
Good
Starring: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Miki Lee, Karen McLymont, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Vince Poletto, Barry Otto, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Emil Chau, Joyce Godenzi, Peter Houghton, Peter Lindsay, David William No, Rachel Blakely, Judy Green, Stefan Fredrich, Stuart Ritchie, Jonathan Isgar, Kyne Sedgman, Steve Kahlua, Matt Trihey, Matthew Meersbergen, Les Vzice, Karl Ajami, Frederick MacGlure, Bradley James Allan, Douglas Macdonald, Paul Andreovski, Robert Lowe, David Baldwin, Ian Mall, Kerry Blakeman, Zeq McCoy ,Mark Campbell, Mike Menzies, Terry Carter, Jason Murphy, Dennis Lundin, Michael Noonan, Tony Doherty, George Novak, Cameron Douglas, Grant Page, Paul Douglas, Puven Pather, Stuart Ellis, Harry Pavlidis, Mark Fitzpatrick, George Popovich, Stuart Fraser, Johnny Raaen, Michael Hammad, Joseph Sayah, Habby Heske, Gary Shambrooke, Brent Houghton, Vess Svorcan, Richard Huggett, Graham Jahne, Davin Taylor, Chris Kemp, Darko Tuscan, Jade Weitering, Damon Young ,Aaron Notarfrancesco, Jake Notarfrancesco, Frederick Miragliotta, Nick Carrafa, Rod Catteral, Ben Mitchell, Mark Neal, Jerome Pride, Keith Agius, Greg Jamieson, Matthew Dyktynski, Salik Silverstein, Lynne Murphy, Nicholas Bufalo, Shane Alexander, Carla Bonner, Glen Chin, Dan Tucker
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
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